Ludwig Lazarus

Ludwig Lazarus (born April 4, 1900 in Berlin ; died November 3, 1970 in Hanover ) was a German private scholar , bookseller, antiquarian and writer.

Life

Ludwig Lazarus was born into a Jewish family in Berlin during the German Empire in 1900 as the son of the bookseller Hermann Lazarus. After attending school, Ludwig Lazarus completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in his father's shop, the Berlin " Buchhandlung A. Asher & Co. " He subsequently also worked as a bookseller.

Until the end of the Weimar Republic Ludwig Lazarus studied the subjects of art history, history and sociology, his studies had in the seizure of power by the National Socialist German Workers' Party , however, forcibly abort (NSDAP) 1933rd During the time of National Socialism , Lazarus got involved in the socialist group Neu Beginnen until he was arrested in 1936 for illegal resistance activities . The Higher Regional Court in Berlin sentenced him to a two-year prison term for “preparation for high treason ” . After serving his imprisonment, he was handed over to the Gestapo and taken to the Dachau concentration camp and from there to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he remained until April 1939. He succeeded, and shortly before the beginning of the Second World War, according to his own account, "on leave for the purpose of emigrating from the concentration camp". Losing the book collection he had built up , Lazarus was able to make his way through Italy to Shanghai in the middle of the war in 1940 , where he was interned in the Jewish Shanghai ghetto during the occupation by Japanese troops .

After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, Ludwig Lazarus returned to Germany via London and settled in Hanover. There he soon made a name for himself as a journalist, private archivist and family researcher . Lazarus, who had given himself the status of “private scholar and publicist ”, was soon surrounded by an extensive collection of books, in addition to around 1,500 detective novels and more than 5,000 other books, as well as over 400 files. He collected material for various newspaper editors and authors such as Bernt Engelmann and also gave lectures on the history of the Jews .

In addition, Lazarus was one of the co-authors of the text on the occasion of the 1963 inaugurated synagogue in Hanover under the title Life and Fate . In addition, he was involved in various organizations of those persecuted by the National Socialists.

Ludwig Lazarus was considered the "original": His involuntarily adventurous life, which was not free from tragedy , often formed the basis of his essays and lectures. He wrote free of resentment , not losing sight of the grotesque and the gloomy . As a journalist, he was almost always concerned with abolishing the equation of “German equals Nazi”. Instead, Lazarus showed the historically "close interweaving of German and Jewish culture ". Lazarus was often concerned with presenting , without prejudice, the proportion of those Germans of the Jewish faith - including himself - in German intellectual and economic life. He made incessant efforts both to improve and to consolidate German-Jewish relations.

In 1965, the state of Lower Saxony recognized the commitment of the Hanoverian by choice with the award of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .

Ludwig Lazarus was buried in the Bothfeld Jewish Cemetery in Hanover .

He is one of the main characters in Ursula Krechel's novel Shanghai Far From Where (2008).

literature

Ludwig Lazarus bookstore, Würzburg . In: From the Antiquariat 2009, No. 6, p. 418.
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 4, 1970

Web links

EHRI portal

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Lazarus, Ludwig in the database of Lower Saxony personalities (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 11, 2013, last accessed on December 15, 2017
↑ Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Peter Schulze : Lazarus, Ludwig , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 226.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.), Hugo Thielen (arrangement): Jewish personalities in Hanover's history . Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7859-0758-3 , p. 81.

personal data
SURNAME	Lazarus, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German private scholar, bookseller and antiquarian, resistance fighter, journalist, writer and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	3rd November 1970
Place of death	Hanover

[GWLB-1] A ^b Lazarus, Ludwig in the database of Lower Saxony personalities (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 11, 2013, last accessed on December 15, 2017

[2] Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library

[HBL-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Peter Schulze : Lazarus, Ludwig , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 226.

[Jüdische_Persönlichkeiten-4] A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.), Hugo Thielen (arrangement): Jewish personalities in Hanover's history . Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7859-0758-3 , p. 81.